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PHP 5.5 available in the [extra] repository 17 Aug 2013 | 01:18 pm
Pierre Schmitz wrote: PHP 5.5 is finally available in our [extra] repository. The migration guide includes information about changes from version 5.4; a detailed list can be found in the PHP Changelo...
TeXLive 2013 update may require user intervention 15 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
Rémy Oudompheng wrote: TeXLive 2013 packages will be available soon in [extra]: users upgrading from TeXLive 2012 will likely encounter the following error message when trying to use a TeX engine (li...
Binaries move to /usr/bin requiring update intervention 3 Jun 2013 | 04:07 pm
Allan McRae wrote: During your next update, you will get a error message like: The update merges all binaries into a unified /usr/bin directory. This step removes a distinction that has been meaning...
netctl is now in [core] 10 Apr 2013 | 07:09 pm
Florian Pritz wrote: Meet netctl: a profile based networking CLI using systemd. In the near future, the old netcfg will be removed from [core]. Anyone using it is urged to move to netctl. Migration i...
MariaDB replaces MySQL in repositories 25 Mar 2013 | 11:13 pm
Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: MariaDB is now officially our default implementation of MySQL. MariaDB is almost a drop in replacement, so an upgrade should be possible with minimum hassle. However, due...
qt4 replaces qt 2 Mar 2013 | 12:19 am
Andrea Scarpino wrote: A new qt4 package in [extra]. This replaces the current qt package. All packages depending on qt need to be rebuilt to depend on qt4. We have done this for all official packag...
Changes to LVM 12 Feb 2013 | 06:12 pm
Thomas Bächler wrote: With lvm2 2.02.98-3, we now utilize lvmetad to activate LVM volumes automatically. This implies the following changes: The lvm2 initramfs hook now requires the udev hook. The ...
Final sysvinit deprecation warning 4 Feb 2013 | 01:35 pm
Tom Gundersen wrote: As previously announced, initscripts are no longer receiving any testing and support has been dropped from various packages. Any users still using them should switch to systemd. ...
Update filesystem-2013.01-1 and glibc-2.17-2 together 26 Jan 2013 | 01:06 pm
Allan McRae wrote: Due to moving of the /lib symlink from the glibc package to the more appropriate filesystem package, it is required to update glibc-2.12-2 and filesystem-2013.01-1 together. This w...
December: time for a new install medium 2 Dec 2012 | 03:14 am
Pierre Schmitz wrote: Version 2012.12.01 of our install and rescue medium is available on our Download page. The latest snapshot contains: arch-install-scripts 9 with an improved fstab generator li...
